Karl Rove to be this year’s commencement speaker at prominent boarding school.

Here's the announcement by Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, that the "influential" Mr. Rove will inspire the class of '08 with his words at this year's graduation.  Is everyone at the school happy with that announcement?   Not at all, as Marty Kaplan explains.  

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How many more bars of soap will I buy before I die?

Today, I find myself wondering how many more bars of soap I will buy before I die.  How many more bars of soap will I buy ever?  What brought this on? I recently went to Costco.  I needed soap and Costco sells big packs of soap at a good price. …

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Cartoons

More cartoons from around the world.   Note:  DI is proud to support these artists through our subscription through Cagle Cartoons.  All cartoons are reprinted with full permission. Contaminación fatal col Arcadio Esquivel, La Prensa, Panama                   Metamorphosis Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City   Two Iraqi…

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I wish all of those silly people would quit believing things that they can’t prove.

If you've ever had this thought that intelligent people never believe things they can't prove, consider that some of the world's sharpest and most skeptical minds have confessed in writing that they too believe things that they can't prove.  You can read all about it in the 2005 Annual Question…

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